Business Agility Now Podcast
Episodes
Measuring What Matters for Business Agility
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In direct response to customer feedback, the Framework team recently released a significant update to its guidance on SAFe® Metrics. In this episode,...
Lean Portfolio Management in the Wild: Practical Applications
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is gaining momentum among enterprises seeking to connect strategy and execution with the teams that are doing the work...
Stories from the Field: Revisiting Your Value Streams
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"We reorganized our company from three distinct business units to a functionally aligned organization, where everyone is responsible for delivering va...
Panel Discussion: Connecting Operational and Development Value Streams
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When enterprises extend SAFe into the business, complexities can arise as people within organizational value streams interact with those in developmen...
Practical Tips for the New RTE
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Release Train Engineers (RTEs) play an important role in aligning the organization. In this episode, we talk to Kimberly Lejonö and Carl Starendal, b...
Purposeful Portfolios
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the strategy set by an organization's leaders is disconnected from the work that's actually happening on the Agile Release Train? In...
Purposeful Portfolios
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the strategy set by an organization's leaders is disconnected from the work that's actually happening on the Agile Release Train? In...
Scrum Master Tips and Tricks, Part Two
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our scrum master tips and tricks series, Madi Fisher and Sam Ervin are back with even more advice. In this episode, we talk about manag...
Scrum Master Tips and Tricks, Part Two
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our scrum master tips and tricks series, Madi Fisher and Sam Ervin are back with even more advice. In this episode, we talk about manag...
Scrum Master Tips and Tricks, Part One
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While lots of people are still working remotely, some are returning to company offices, creating hybrid team environments. What does this new normal m...
SAFe for Hardware
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many organizations that develop and deliver software have been practicing Agile for a decade, if not longer. That hasn't typically been the case for o...
Strategy and Execution: Business Owners are the Key
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to practice SAFe effectively and achieve business agility if your key stakeholders aren't fully engaged at the right levels. In this episode...
Strategy and Execution: Business Owners are the Key
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to practice SAFe effectively and achieve business agility if your key stakeholders aren't fully engaged at the right levels. In this episode...
Operational and Development Value Streams
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Organizations practicing SAFe create value streams to accelerate time to value. But what's the difference between an operational and a development val...
Value Remeasured
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Without internal alignment on a clear definition of value, how can an organization quickly respond to changing customer demands? In this episode, Shaw...
What's New in SAFe 5?
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, we introduced new updates to SAFe® 5, including the new 5.1 Big Picture, several new articles, improvements to existing articles,...
Leading with Intention
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders cultivate success by exemplifying behaviors that align with their organization's values, and by integrating these values into their decision-m...
Leading with Intention
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders cultivate success by exemplifying behaviors that align with their organization's values, and by integrating these values into their decision-m...
Improving Agility at American Express
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many large finance and technology companies are vying for market share in a very competitive space. In this 50th episode of the SAFe Business Agility ...
Agile HR
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While Agile practices often translate well in development and marketing organizations, it's more challenging to apply them in other areas of the busin...
Customer Centricity, Silo Busting, and Organizational Agility
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Organizations worldwide are shifting their focus toward customer centricity for lots of reasons, including to build loyalty and drive revenue. But an ...
A Conversation with Dean Leffingwell and Geoffrey Moore
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1995, author and advisor Geoffrey Moore released Inside the Tornado, the second book in his popular three-part marketing series that offers strateg...
The RTE Role
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While the title release train engineer, or RTE, is specific to SAFe®, the role exists under different names, such as Agile delivery lead, and is crit...
Agile Marketing Panel, Part Two
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From their origins in software development, Agile practices are expanding to business teams, including marketing. But making that happen requires a di...
Agile Marketing Panel, Part One
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From their origins in software development, Agile practices are expanding to business teams, including marketing. But making that happen requires a di...
The SAFe® Coach
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are lots of key roles associated with SAFe—Business Owners, Product Managers, Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters. But probably the most ub...
Stories from the Field: Patterns in PI Planning
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this ongoing series, our customers and partners share their stories from the field about working with SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This epi...
Stories from the Field: ART Tips & Tricks
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this ongoing series, our customers and partners share their stories from the field about working with SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This epi...
Stories from the Field: ART Tips & Tricks
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this ongoing series, our customers and partners share their stories from the field about working with SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This epi...
2020 Global SAFe® Summit
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A majority of the events many of us are used to attending in person are now virtual, including our upcoming 2020 Global SAFe Summit in October. In thi...
Stories from the Field: Remote I&A at Travelport
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this series, we talk to customers about their field experiences with remote SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode with Hilla Knapke, di...
Stories from the Field: Coaching in Government
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this ongoing series, our customers and partners share their stories from the field about working with SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This epi...
Stories from the Field: Remote Experiences in Government
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this ongoing series, customers and partners share their stories from the field about working with SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode...
Stories from the Field: Remote ART Launches at Accenture
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this series, we talk to customers about their field experiences with remote SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode with Scott Frost, SAF...
Stories from the Field: Remote PI Planning at CVS Health
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this series, we talk to customers about their field experiences with remote SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode with Rebecca Davis, S...
The Tipping Point at Travelport
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to a candid conversation about what prompted Travelport to adopt SAFe®. Hint: it partially started with a grassroots movement. Hilla Knapke, d...
Stories from the Field: Remote PI Planning at Travelport
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this new series, we talk to customers about their field experiences with remote SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode with Hilla Knapke...
DEEP DIVE: Measuring Business Agility
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC, and Inbar Oren, SAFe® Fellow and principal contributor to the Scaled Agile ...
Enterprise Strategy Formulation and Lean Portfolio Management
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Learn more about enterprise strategy formulation as it relates to lean portfolio management and SAFe 5.0, as well as how organizational agility gives ...
Team Topology
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this deep-dive episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC and Dean Leffingwell, Chief Methodologist for the Scaled Agile Fram...
The Evolving Role of the PMO in the Enterprise
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On today's show, listeners will learn how the PMO is evolving in the face of business agility, hear about Dean Leffingwell's new white paper on Enterp...
Adopting Participatory Budgeting in SAFe
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Learn about the benefits of using participatory budgeting in the public sector, and tips for adopting participatory budgeting in an organization.
DEEP DIVE: Running Remote PIs, ARTs and Teams
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this deep-dive episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC and Inbar Oren, SAFe® Fellow and principal contributor to the Scal...
Customer Centricity in SAFe
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how customer centricity ties to organizational agility how organizations are applying the mindset to their organizations, and how to find the cu...
DEEP DIVE: Journey to Organizational Agility
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Deep Dive episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC and Joe Vallone, SPCT and SAFe Fellow, explore the purpose of Organ...
DEEP DIVE: Journey to Design Thinking
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this Deep Dive episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC and Joe Vallone, SPCT and SAFe Fellow, explore design thinking, its...
Suppliers in SAFe, integrating Suppliers into a SAFe environment, Supplier Dependencies
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how suppliers in a SAFe environment differ from Suppliers in a traditional environment, how to integrate a large number of suppliers into a SAFe...
BONUS: Global Summit - Dean Leffingwell and Melissa Reeve discuss the release of SAFe 5.0
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dean Leffingwell highlights changes to the Big Picture on 5.0, including design thinking, continuous learning culture and organizational agility.
Learn how Airbus used SAFe to improve its operations, how value streams behave in a large solution environment how to conduct I & A for large solution trains and more.
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how Airbus used SAFe to improve its operations, how value streams behave in a large solution environment how to conduct I & A for large solution...
(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 6 - Joe Vallone and Scott Frost talk Portfolio Engineering
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn the meaning behind why there is no Portfolio Engineer role in Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and how LPM is facilitated.
(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 5 - Joe Vallone with Malte Kumlehn - SAP
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how to integrate SAFe into a large ERP system to achieve business agility and the value of automation in these implementations
(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 4- Melissa Reeve and Dwayne Stroman discuss SAFe + Marketing
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn the why and the how of applying the principles of SAFe to a marketing organization. Melissa Reeve, SPC and Dwayne Stroman, SPCT discuss the role...
(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 3 – Joe Vallone and Don Reinertson discuss the financial impact of WSJF
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Join Joe Vallone, SAFe Fellow and SPCT, and Don Reinertsen, author of Principles of Product Development Flow, as they discuss how to apply WSJF in a S...
Continuous Learning, Design Thinking and Customer Centricity
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how continuous learning helps leaders lead the change, how one organization embraced a culture of continuous learning, how design thinking drive...
(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 2 – Joe Vallone and Brian Tucker on People Patterns
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation between SAFe Fellow, Joe Vallone and newly minted SAFe Fellow, Brian Tucker, talking about patterns they see forming within the people,...
(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 1 – Interview with Keynote Speaker Jade Simmons
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From our 2019 Global Summit, we get up close and personal with our motivational keynote speaker, Jade Simmons, who moved our audience while teaching t...
Unlocking data's value, quantifying the impact of choices in SAFe, WSJF and Monte Carlo simulations
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how assuming variability and preserving options helps unlock the value of data, how to quantify the impact of choices in SAFe. We'll also answer...
Everything architecture! The evolution of Architecture & SAFe + Architect enablers
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how Enterprise Architecture is evolving, how one company's success patterns integrating Architecture when implementing SAFe and how to allocate ...
Intel & business agility using data, Value Stream Optimization with DevOps, DevOps and SAFe questions.
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how Intel is achieving business agility by streamlining data, as well as implementing Agile and DevOps. Hear how optimizing value streams help...
DoD uses AI for background checks, government agencies using SAFe, and remote problem solving workshops
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how the Department of Defense is using artificial intelligence and SAFe to reduce queue lengths for background checks, and how a government agen...
Manager responsibilities in SAFe, best practices for leadership engagement, PI System Demos and more
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn the six responsibilities of managers in an agile organization, success patterns for rolling out a SAFe transformation. We'll also be addressing ...
Management review, accelerating release cadence, Solution Roadmaps and more
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how a media provider in the Nordics is using SAFe to keep up with market changes, how one organization moved from an annual planning based caden...
Lean-Agile UX, Role of the PO, PM, servant leadership and more!
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listeners will learn the benefits of adopting Lean-Agile UX into SAFe and how to balance the roles of the PO, PM and Business Owners. We'll also be ad...
Lean Portfolio Management and SAFe, Lean-Agile budgeting and more
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how SAFe is enabling smart devices to get smarter and examples on how SAFe is being used to enable Lean Portfolio Management. You will also lear...
2019 European SAFe Summit Recap, Part 2 - Welcome to the Age of Software!
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hear about Dean Leffingwell's keynote presentation at the 2019 European SAFe Summit - Digital Disruption is Dead: Welcome to the Age of Software!
2019 European SAFe Summit Recap - Companies changing the world, one PI at a time
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hear SAFe Creator and Chief Methodologist opine on the customer stories he heard at the 2019 European SAFe Summit.
SAFe and Architecture, Value Streams, WSJF and more
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how SAFe embraces architectural roles, the struggles around identifying value streams and the meaning behind WSJF. You will also learn the minim...
Agility and Corporate Culture, Value of Predictability and more
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how to weave agility throughout your corporate culture, why predictability is even more important than increased production and answer listener...
Leadership Buy in, Normalized Story Points and more
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how the US Department of Defense is using SAFe to build out a cyber-factory to defend against cyber-attacks. Understand the difference between ...